NEwS FROM WASHINGTON » SEC Loses Case Against Securities Felon » Washington Attorney Gets Prison for Stealing from Clients » Agency Judge Rejects FTC's Conspiracy Claim » Judge Tosses RICO Suit for 'Extraterritorial' Allegations » Energy Department Counsel Nominated for Federal Bench » Jeffrey Skilling, DOJ Agree on Prison Sentence Reduction The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suffered a resounding loss when a federal judge last week rejected the agency's fraud case against securities felon Gary Prince. The SEC alleged that Prince's former employer, Integral Systems, illegally failed to disclose his... Read More » A Washington-based attorney who admitted in January to stealing more than $100,000 intended for his clients has been sentenced to six months in prison, followed by six months of house arrest. Deairich Hunter was sentenced Thursday for pilfering payments to... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: WORK EVEN SMARTER: Labor & Employment Law Resource Center Access key arbitration decisions, renowned news coverage, full-text state labor and employment statutes and expertly authored treatises -- all on one platform -- to seamlessly conduct complex legal research. Recently enhanced to include thirty-nine labor and employment law treatises -- with links to primary source material and headnoted cases -- including Elkouri & Elkouri: How Arbitration Works. Request your FREE trial today and receive a complimentary copy of the 2013 Labor Outlook, crafted by Bloomberg BNA's expert editorial team. FREE TRIAL | It's not often that the Federal Trade Commission loses on its home court - after all, the decisions of the agency's administrative law judge are reviewed by the commission itself. In a decision published yesterday, Chief Administrative Law Judge Michael... Read More » A Washington federal judge yesterday dismissed a racketeering lawsuit against a D.C.-based consultant accused of plotting with the daughter of Kazakhstan's president to seize assets from two businessmen. U.S. District Senior Judge Thomas Hogan dismisseddismissed the case without addressing the... Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Expand Your Knowledge & Network Experience intensive training that gives you a competitive edge and qualifies for CLE credit. Attend American University Washington College of Law's summer law programs in D.C. Learn the latest policies and network with experts in diverse fields of law including intellectual property, litigation, anti-corruption, hotel law, public policy, health law, arbitration, and more. Click here | Department of Energy general counsel Gregory Woods has been nominated to be a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the White House announced today. Woods, a former partner at Debevoise & Plimpton's corporate... Read More » Federal prosecutors have agreed to a sentencing deal with Jeffrey Skilling that will shave time from the 24-year prison term the former Enron Corp. chief executive is serving for his role in the energy giant's collapse. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES Virginia statute restricting public records access to Virginia citizens only does not violate either Privileges and Immunities Clause or dormant Commerce Clause (Alito, J.) Read More » Where noncitizen's conviction for marijuana distribution offense did not establish offense involved remuneration or more than small amount of marijuana, offense was not aggravated felony under immigration law (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Natural dissipation of alcohol in suspected drunk driver's bloodstream does not by itself necessarily constitute exigency sufficient to justify warrantless blood test (Sotomayor, J.) Read More » Presumption against extraterritorial application of U.S. law applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and nothing in that legislation rebuts that presumption (Roberts, C.J.) Read More » Terms of employer's ERISA plan take precedence over unjust enrichment principles with regard to employer's action under ERISA to recover funds advanced to injured employee (Kagan, J.) Read More » | 
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